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Healthcare Estates 2024
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Speaking at the Future Surgery event in London today (Tuesday 1 October), Tim Mitchell, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, warned the Government it will ‘fail to make a sufficient dent in reducing waiting times without investment in crumbling NHS infrastructure and new technology’.
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Rethinking hospital design for a sustainable future
With climate change being combated on many fronts, Professor Stefano Capolongo, director of the Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering Department, and Scientific coordinator of the Design & Health Lab and JRP Healthcare Infrastructures, at Politecnico di Milano, discusses the re-thinking and implementation of practices in the...
Managing critical systems is often a challenging task
Simon Everett, a Senior lecturer in the Built Environment at Wrexham University, discusses some of the challenges of managing ‘legacy’ AHU systems across the healthcare estate, and some of the key steps for healthcare engineers to consider to minimise the risks of such equipment failing.
Boosting capacity and helping to keep the lights on
Reliable, modern electrical infrastructure is key to the optimal running of modern hospitals, but with technological advancements demanding more resources, and reliance on ageing utility systems and IT networks, many NHS Estates and Facilities teams face an increasing challenge to balance existing effectiveness using limited budgets, and the need...
Pneumatic tube systems – the ‘invisible heroes’
An estimated one million patient samples are transported by pneumatic tube systems in British hospitals every week. Ensuring that these samples and other critical items arrive at their intended destination quickly and without fail is the job of the companies that supply and install these increasingly complex networks of plastic tubes. Here, Tom...
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The architecture and planning of a hospital is of crucial long-term importance to functionality and successful patient care. It forms the basis for optimal hospital processes and, in turn, minimises the workload of hospital personnel. We have been supporting workplace design in the field of acute care for over 50 years. With our expertise in...
